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Fere vs Kere - What's the difference?

fere | kere |

As nouns the difference between fere and kere

is that fere is a companion, comrade or friend while kere is a reading that in the traditional jewish mode of reading the hebrew bible is substituted for one actually standing in the consonantal text with the consonants of the word or phrase to be read being usually given in the margin and the vowel points if the text is vocalized being inserted in the text.

As an adjective fere

is (obsolete) fierce.

fere

English

Etymology 1

(etyl) (Northumbrian) ).

Alternative forms

* pheer

Noun

(en noun)
  • A companion, comrade or friend.
  • *1485 , Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur , Book V:
  • *:they swange oute their swerdis and slowe of noble men of armys mo than an hondred – and than they rode ayen to theire ferys .
  • (label) A spouse; an animal's mate.
  • *(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
  • *:And Cambel took Cambrina to his fere .
  • *1830 , , ‘ Supposed Confessions of a Second-Rate Sensitive Mind’:
  • *:The lamb rejoiceth in the year, / And raceth freely with his fere , / And answers to his mother’s calls / From the flower’d furrow.
    • Derived terms
    * (l)

    Etymology 2

    Compare (etyl) (lena) .

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) fierce
    • (Webster 1913)

    Anagrams

    * free * reef ----

    kere

    English

    Alternative forms

    * keri

    Noun

  • A reading that in the traditional Jewish mode of reading the Hebrew Bible is substituted for one actually standing in the consonantal text with the consonants of the word or phrase to be read being usually given in the margin and the vowel points if the text is vocalized being inserted in the text.

    • Anagrams

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